FROM: Find A Grave contributor #51612660:
Bion Bradbury Hall was born on a farm in Patten, Maine in 1858, to Harrison E. Hall and his wife Elizabeth. By the time Bion was six or seven years old, his mother died and his father remarried. He and his siblings were raised by his father's second wife Lucinda.
In the 1880 Census, 21-year-old Bion was living with the family of Ephraim Joy, another farmer in Patten. Bion was a "servant, works on farm." Interestingly, Ephraim's 13-year-old son James Freeman Joy would, 13 years later, marry Bion's half-sister Edith.
In 1894, Bion married Augusta M. Runger (born in Minnesota). We don't know where they were married. We do know that by 1899 they were living in East Bridgewater, MA, because that's were they were when their daughter Audie was born. In the 1900 Census (East Bridgewater), Bion was working as a Packer.
(In that 1900 Census, his old friend Freeman Joy, now a blacksmith, and his half-sister Edith, a dressmaker, were living in Boston with two of Freeman's children by a previous marriage. Freeman and Edith had been married seven years. Might the two families have moved to Massachusetts at nearly the same time? Had there been a plan?)
(Similarly, Bion's half-brother Charles [Edith's only full sibling] moved to East Bridgewater with his family after their father died. There can be little doubt that they moved there because Bion was there.)
Bion died in East Bridgewater in 1907. His wife Augusta and daughter Audie stayed in the city for the rest of their lives and are buried together—along with Audie's husband—in Union Cemetery.
Three months after Bion's death, his half-brother Charles (also living in East Bridgewater) named his son "Bion Bradbury Hall."
FROM: Find A Grave contributor #51612660:
Bion Bradbury Hall was born on a farm in Patten, Maine in 1858, to Harrison E. Hall and his wife Elizabeth. By the time Bion was six or seven years old, his mother died and his father remarried. He and his siblings were raised by his father's second wife Lucinda.
In the 1880 Census, 21-year-old Bion was living with the family of Ephraim Joy, another farmer in Patten. Bion was a "servant, works on farm." Interestingly, Ephraim's 13-year-old son James Freeman Joy would, 13 years later, marry Bion's half-sister Edith.
In 1894, Bion married Augusta M. Runger (born in Minnesota). We don't know where they were married. We do know that by 1899 they were living in East Bridgewater, MA, because that's were they were when their daughter Audie was born. In the 1900 Census (East Bridgewater), Bion was working as a Packer.
(In that 1900 Census, his old friend Freeman Joy, now a blacksmith, and his half-sister Edith, a dressmaker, were living in Boston with two of Freeman's children by a previous marriage. Freeman and Edith had been married seven years. Might the two families have moved to Massachusetts at nearly the same time? Had there been a plan?)
(Similarly, Bion's half-brother Charles [Edith's only full sibling] moved to East Bridgewater with his family after their father died. There can be little doubt that they moved there because Bion was there.)
Bion died in East Bridgewater in 1907. His wife Augusta and daughter Audie stayed in the city for the rest of their lives and are buried together—along with Audie's husband—in Union Cemetery.
Three months after Bion's death, his half-brother Charles (also living in East Bridgewater) named his son "Bion Bradbury Hall."
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